Guardian America is an American version of the British news website The Guardian. Although the British version is also available in print, under the name The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

, Guardian America is not.

A lot of the content on Guardian America is taken from Guardian Unlimited and The Guardian, although some content is produced for Guardian America.

The current editor of Guardian America is Michael Tomasky

Michael Tomasky

Michael Tomasky is a liberal American columnist, journalist and author. He is the editor in chief of Democracy, a special correspondent for Newsweek / The Daily Beast, a contributing editor for The American Prospect, and a contributor to The New York Review of Books.-Biography:Tomasky was born...

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History

Guardian America was created in October 2007 and was highly publicised at the time of its launch on the Guardian Unlimited website. The response from Guardian Unlimited users at the time of Guardian America's creation was mixed, reflecting concern about possible changes.

On July 23 the Guardian Media Group

Guardian Media Group

Guardian Media Group plc is a company of the United Kingdom owning various mass media operations including The Guardian and The Observer. The Group is owned by the Scott Trust. It was founded as the Manchester Guardian Ltd in 1907 when C. P. Scott bought the Manchester Guardian from the estate of...

 announced that Caroline Little, the former chief executive and publisher of WashingtonPost.Newsweek

Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...

 Interactive, would join the Guardian News & Media America operation in the role of special adviser for its expansion in the United States. She will also join the board of ContentNext (website), the US-based digital business news publisher that owns PaidContent.org

Paidcontent.org

paidContent is an online media hub that covers news, information and analysis of the business of digital media. It was founded in 2002 by journalist Rafat Ali to "chronicle the evolution of digital content that is shaping the future of the media, information and entertainment industries."Funded by...

 (website), acquired by GNM earlier in July.

Political Stance

Guardian News and Media's publications/websites (including Guardian America) have a left of centre political stance - ranging from centre-ground liberal to left-wing socialist in some comment parts of the site.

Format

Guardian America is only available online, although Guardian Weekly, an international version of The Guardian is available in print and online.

Ownership

Guardian America is controlled by Guardian News and Media (GNM). GNM is controlled by Guardian Media Group (GMG), which is controlled by the Scott Trust

Scott Trust

The Scott Trust Limited is the British company which owns Guardian Media Group and thus The Guardian, The Observer and Auto Trader as well as various local newspapers, Smooth Radio and other radio stations, and various other media businesses in the UK...

, a charitable organisation which aims to ensure the editorial independence of the publications and Web Sites of GMG.

Guardian Weekly

Guardian Weekly is similar to Guardian America in that it is not UK focused, although Guardian Weekly provides a more international focus, and is only updated weekly (Guardian America carries breaking news).

Guardian Abroad

Guardian Abroad is designed to provide information (not news) to British expatriates. It is, therefore, very different from Guardian Weekly and, even more so, Guardian America.

Background

Comment is Free (CiF) is the comment part of the Guardian and is named after a quote by veteran Guardian editor CP Scott: "Comment is free, but facts are sacred". It is a site where Guardian writers publish a comment article then users respond, in the manner of blogs. This is different from Guardian talk, where the discussions are started by Guardian Unlimited users.

America on CiF

As of 28 October 2007 United States is the most frequent topic (with 932 articles). The second most frequent topic is Iraq (which the USA is heavily involved in). There are also many articles about George Bush.